Author Michael Copperman will read from his memoir Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta, on Thursday, Feb. 23. The first reading is from 12-1 p.m. in McArthur Lecture Hall,
Wenatchi Hall and at the Omak campus, room 902, via ITV. The second is at 5:30 p.m.
in The Grove Recital Hall, Music and Art Center. Both readings are free and open to
the public.

One reviewer describes Teacher as “the son of a West Coast doctor, a Stanford grad, an Asian-American awake to injustice
and hoping to make a difference by joining Teach For America,” who becomes “the ultimate
outsider in the black-and-white world of the Delta.”

Copperman has taught writing to low-income, first-generation students of diverse backgrounds
at the University of Oregon for the last decade. His prose has appeared in The Oxford American, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Salon, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Waxwing and Copper Nickel, among other magazines, and has won awards and garnered fellowships from the Munster
Literature Center, Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Oregon Literary Arts and the Oregon
Arts Commission. University Press of Mississippi published Teacher in September 2016.

In addition to his own writing, Copperman also helps run The Oregon Writers’ Collective,
a group co-founded by WVC English faculty Heather Ryan. Through readings and workshops,
they foster a vibrant community to nurture working literary writers, particularly
those who are beginning their careers, by connecting them with audiences and developing their
craft.

Daily parking passes on the Wenatchee campus cost $2. Parking permit machines are
available in the Wells Hall/Music and Art Gallery, Smith Gym, Brown Library and Sexton
Hall lots. Students must have valid WVC parking permits.

WVC Speaks is sponsored by the WVC Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the
Transfer English Division, and Ginny and Nelson Martin.

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